BooksChatter: ☀ The Nine Lives of Jacob Fallada

Friday, 23 August 2019

☀ The Nine Lives of Jacob Fallada - Neil Randall

Thank you for joining us on the Virtual Book Tour for The Nine Lives of Jacob Fallada, a Literary Fiction by Neil Randall (20 August 2019, J.New Books, 160 pages).

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PREVIEW: Check out the book's synopsis and the Kindle Cloud Reader Preview below, as well as full details of the series.

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Synopsis

The Nine Lives of Jacob Fallada is the story of an outsider, a lonely, misunderstood young artist who chronicles all the unpleasant things that happen to him in life.

Abandoned by his parents, brought up be a tyrannical aunt, bullied at school, ostracized by the local community, nearly everyone Jacob comes into contact with takes an instant, (often) violent dislike towards him.

Like Job from the bible, he is beaten and abused, manipulated and taken advantage of. Life, people, fate, circumstance force him deeper into his shell, deeper into the cocoon of his fledgling artistic work, where he records every significant event in sketches, paintings and short-form verse, documenting his own unique, eminently miserable human experience.

At heart, he longs for companionship, intimacy, love, but is dealt so many blows he is too scared to reach out to anybody.

On the fringes of society, he devotes himself solely to his art.

Teaser: Excerpt

When he finally got to the bottom of the track, Jacob couldn’t quite believe what he saw. In a secluded clearing, in the shadow of several grand old oak trees, stood a dilapidated, mildewed caravan, missing its wheels, with one window boarded-up, and a rusted old aerial dangling from the roof. Still breathing heavily, he put his bags down again and looked right and left. Closing his eyes, he listened to something that wasn’t quite silence—there was a gentle breeze rustling through the trees, the odd soothing, chirruping birdsong, maybe even the far-off sounds of waves breaking on the shoreline—but something that was as close to silence as Jacob Fallada had ever known before. “Home at last.”

Nine stories
One artist
The whole world against him

The Nine Lives of Jacob Fallada
Available NOW!

About the Author

Neil Randall is the author of seven published novels and a collection of short stories.

His work has been published in the UK, US, Australia and Canada

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